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Census: Budget Would Deal 2020 Count Critical Blow
Representatives of a coalition of census stakeholders expressed concern the Trump administration?s proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget for the Census Bureau ?woefully underfunds preparations for the national census at a critical phase in the planning.? Stakeholders of the Census Project include state and local governments, business and industry, civil rights and labor groups, housing and child advocates and research and professional organizations that support a complete, fair and accurate census.
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Centralizing Federal Student Data
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have introduced a bill called the College Transparency Act of 2017 to direct the National Center for Education Statistics to develop a secure system for linking databases of student records maintained by multiple federal agencies. The bill would overturn a ban of such a system established by the 2008 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which has limited the government?s ability to evaluate graduation and employment outcomes across the country despite the fact that universities have to report this data already.
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Trump?s 20% Cut in Labor Budget Aims at Job Training
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, another DOL subagency to attract controversy under Trump, would see its funding hold mostly steady at $543 million. Trump?s claims on the campaign trail last year that the BLS produces ?phony? jobs report data generated concerns from some economists that he might try to slash the statistical agency?s funding. But those fears weren?t realized in Trump?s initial budget request.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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DATA Act Reporting- Up & Running
The federal government began reporting spending using a single data structure – creating the first-ever unified open data set depicting the entire executive branch’s finances – under a deadline set by the DATA Act of 2014. The Treasury Department began publishing this data set on a new, modernized version of its USASpending.gov portal – while making the raw data available for free download via an API.
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Visualization of the Week
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Prince George?s County- Home to Former DC Residents
Within an interconnected metro region, what do the flows of people in the D.C. metro region look like and what places are gaining or losing residents on net? The above chart shows the D.C. metro region by outflows of people moving from one location to another county or city in the region.
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Notable Data Publications
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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Energy Information Administration
- Coal Markets Reporting System (June 23, 2017)
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